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Female.—Length, 7-2 ; tail, 20 ; tarsus, I'l ; bill from gape, 

 0-75; bill at front, 0-64; mid-toe and claw, 1'5: weif^ht, 

 1-5 ozs. * 



Bill dark green, dusky along culraen ; irides bright red ; feet 

 pale dingy green. 



The chin and upper part of the throat white ; a broad bluish 

 grey supercilium reaches to sides of occiput. 



Baillon's Crake is common in the valley of Nepal, from 

 July to December, but is never seen or heard during the first 

 half of the year. It particularly affects the fields of trans- 

 planted rice, and from thence its peculiar call may be heard in 

 the morning and evening, and often by night, as soon as the 

 plant has attained a height of about a foot or so. Its cry is 

 loud and consists of three or four syllables, slowly repeated 

 at first, and then the same notes are given in rapid succession, 

 so as to form a long drawn chattering cry, e.g., tuk, tuk, tuk, 

 — tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk, kur. 



918.-— Ciconia nigra, Lin. 



Female, Nawakot District, November. — Length, 40*7 ; ex- 

 panse, 75-5 ; wing, 21 ; tarsus, 7-6; tibia bare, 4-25 ; bill from 

 gape, 7-7 ; bill at front, 7*65. 



Bill dark red, paler at tip ; orbital skin red ; irides dark 

 brown ; legs and feet dull red. 



Two young birds, Valle?/, October.— hength, 40-5 and 41 ; 

 expanse, 75 and 76-5 ; wing, 21-5 and 21-85 ; tail, 9-5 and 9-8 ; 

 tarsus, 7-5 and 7-6 ; tibia bare, 3-8 and 4-1 ; mid-toe and claw, 

 3-8 ; bill from gape, 7-3 and 7-45 ; bill at front, 6-6 and 6-75 ; 

 closed wings short of tail, 0-8 and 0-9; weight, 5 lbs. 7-5 ozs. 

 and 5 lbs. 11 ozs. 



Bill horny green, brownish at base ; orbital skin purplish 

 brown ; irides dark brown ; legs and feet dingy greenish, the 

 upper part of the tibia buffy ; claws greenish horny. 



The Black Stork is common in the valley of Nepal and the 

 Nawakot district from th^ end of September to December, and 

 perhaps throughout the cold season. Its habits are much the 

 same as those of the next species. 



920.— Dissura episcopa, Bodd, 



Two males. — Length, 36 and 37-5; expanse, 72 and 74; 

 wing, 20 and 20-5 ; tail, 7-7 and 8; tarsus, 6-83 and 7*0; bill 

 from gape, 6-42 and 6-7 ; bill at front, 6*1 and 6*5 ; closed 

 wings reach beyond end of tail, 0-8 and 1'2; tibia bare, 4-4 

 and 5 ; weight, 5 lbs. and 6 lbs. 1 oz. 



Two females. — Length, 35-3 and 37 ; expanse, 70 ; wino-, 

 19-6 and 20; tail, 7 "6 and 8-2; tarsus, 6*7 and 7; bill from 



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